According to calculations by the insurers, a total of 140.9 million euros in compensation will be paid to the victims of the terrorist attacks that took place at Zaventem airport and at Maalbeek metro station in Brussels on 22 March 2016. The figures that were published on Friday come from the insurance industry Assuralia.
Compensation payments for the victims of the 2016 terror attacks in Brussels and Zaventem will total 140.9 million euro
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The figure of 140.9 million euros is just an estimate. At the end of 2024, the amount that had been paid out stood at 83.6 million euros. Since 2016, insurers have paid out a total of 74.3 million euro for material and psychological damage suffered by the victims of the attacks. Amongst other things this covers medical expenses, hospitalisation and temporary or permanent incapacity to work. In addition to this 9 million euro was paid out as compensation for moral damages.
In addition too this, 57.3 million euro has been set aside to cover future medical expenses, future periods of disability, pension payments under the occupational accident insurance scheme and other benefits.
In the attacks that happened almost 9 years ago at Brussels Airport in Zaventem (Flemish Brabant) and inside the Maalbeek metro station in Brussels' European District 35 people were killed and hundreds more were injured.